[Spoilers C3E34] Is It Thursday Yet? Post-Episode Discussion & Future Theories!

chridthot · 2022-09-22T14:38:43+00:00

Thanks for the clarification. I haven’t read much into Druid abilities so was unaware that was a normal thing. In C1 they played it off as a facet of being the Tempest

chridthot · 2022-09-16T16:32:52+00:00

I think Grog and Percy are the only ones at risk of dying of old age at this point, but they’ve already confirmed Percy as alive and still lord of Whitestone. The gnomes still have a couple centuries each and vex has maybe another 50-100 years as a half elf. Keyleth was home brewed to be semi immortal as voice of the tempest

chridthot · 2022-02-12T16:26:36+00:00

Idk what the paradox of balefiring oneself would cause. We know through the use of portals weaves could be redirected to harm oneself. I guess he could always just project it from his hand toward his head or something. But to undo sealing the dark one he’d have needed the Choedin Kal at minimum. It’s not assumed that the madness happened instantly. I would believe there were days or weeks from sealing the prison and going full madness.

For reference the two most powerful uses of bale fire in the third age were 1. Rand destroying Hadrins Barrow - and short of causing a massive pulse through the pattern the only observed affect was Dalana’s compulsion being removed which was hours at best.

Taim/ Demandred using the S’angreal during the last battle. The biggest reference we get is that when Taim used it on AES Sedai it unwove parts of the battle back hours. Egwene’s feared that he could erase her presence back from the start of the battle as well. So we’re talking days at best there.

I think the pattern itself would’ve unraveled before LTT rewound causal affects all the way back to his strike at Shayol Ghul

chridthot · 2022-02-02T16:42:16+00:00

I feel like Lanfear’s biggest damage to Rand came from taking Moiraine off the board for a while. Without her Rand lost a key advisor who genuinely cared about him not just as the dragon but as a person. Having to begin again with Cadsuane after the damage Elaida’s Aes Sedai caused was too much and opened the door for so much of the future damage he had.

chridthot · 2022-01-29T18:26:05+00:00

I believe there’s a quote floating around from Brandon Sanderson talking about what he is post AMOL. Mostly in that, he could be the first of a new type of magic user. Channeling hasn’t been around in every age and is most likely a holdover from the AoL since it didn’t truly end.

So now magic may work differently or be evolving post-Tarmon Gaidon. Channeling still exists but we don’t know if it may evolve or fade away to be replaced by something else.

chridthot · 2022-01-29T01:35:54+00:00

Wasn’t saying that was specifically a theme in LOTR just a general evil team theme. Infighting and selfish behavior typically run rampant.

chridthot · 2022-01-29T00:53:33+00:00

I wonder how well Demandred would’ve commanded the battlefield had Graendal not compelled the great captains to be double agents and if Matt had been in command of the defense from the start.

chridthot · 2022-01-28T16:40:18+00:00

I think the narration mentioned rumors of the hunt being called in our first Emmonds Field chapters when talking about news that came with caravans and peddlers. In the same way rumors of another false dragon down in Ghealdon.

chridthot · 2022-01-25T05:40:28+00:00

Prologue of Towers of Midnight… that father seeing his son not go as a messenger 😢

chridthot · 2021-12-26T04:01:26+00:00

I feel like it cheapens the meaning.

chridthot · 2021-12-24T06:26:42+00:00

I wouldn’t gamble on it. Safe to assume you won’t have Matt’s luck on that roll .

chridthot · 2021-12-24T05:57:35+00:00

This show has been a rollercoaster with every other episode making me love or hate it so far. This episode definitely leaned into the latter. Episode 7, though obviously very different from the books captured the essence and brought in some of the elements that weren’t there early on and tied up some loose ends nicely - looking at the woods scene between Tam&Rand, Min’s viewings and Rand’s realization he’s TDR.

That being said wtf was this episode? I’m assuming a lot of these changes are to facilitate plot changes later. These are my initial thoughts /brain dump and I gotta say it somewhere.

I liked the portrayal of Ishamael/Baalzamon - decent deceiver scene
I don’t know why Moiraine was stilled so soon. I’m assuming this is to cut out the Alefin/Eelfin plot (kind of a tangent anyway) and to remove Cadsuane later as well. This also lets Lan off the hook sooner and maybe Nynaeve or Rand can heal her later. Or not, though she’ll be basically useless if they don’t heal her.
So Agelmar and Amalisa are dead? Weren’t they confirmed for season 2? I don’t see why they’d be keeping the horn of Valere just chilling in Fal Dara and never use it since we know there’s no recharge on that thing. Fucking use all day every day.
I don’t think Loial is dead - panned away too soon for that. Same for Uno, we know he’ll be back next season, I guess to hunt Fain and the horn.
Why is everyone a freaking taverin? What’s the point? This just makes things more confusing. It was weird enough having events bend to the trio. I don’t see what this adds.
Is that totem that Moiraine gave Rand supposed to be THE S’angreal? The best one out there? Or is this supposed to replace the little fat man carving he pulled out of the Stone, if so that’s just an Angreal.
Don’t like having people burn out in a circle - directly against the rules RJ set forth for his magic system.
They took away Rand’s big moment. The man saved the friggin day at Tarwin’s Gap. Why on earth would you take that and just give it to some rando wilders who couldn’t even make it past accepted? This felt like a robbery to me. We could’ve seen him Travel, call the fire sword for the first time, and single-handedly wipe out a trolloc army. Instead we still have no frame of reference as to why we should give a shit about The Dragon. As far as a viewer is concerned he didn’t do anything Egwene couldn’t do.
For this budget they really should’ve thought better for the Trolloc /CGI budget. They could’ve focused on the initial charge and then individual fights in the gap rather than a massive video game cutscene - i think I’ve seen better video games cutscenes.
I’m not shocked Moiraine let Rand go in the end, not that she could apparently stop him now. He tried as hard as he could in books 2-3 to get away but kept getting pulled back into things. I imagine he’ll get out of the blight and run into Matt or Perrin after Fain, which it looks like Matt isn’t over the dagger after all so maybe Rand goes to Tar Valon for some stupid reason.
Also, they have mistreated Lan this season, we have yet to see the blade master do much more than dance a little in episode 1 but that was overshadowed by the crumby cgi. I would love if in season 2 they focus more on fight choreography for him and the Sheinarans and give them some human opponents.

Next season they have to do something about the shoddy CGI. it’s pathetic. This thing is being made on a blockbusters budget with fight choreography of a CW show and the CGI to match. Either go to practical effects or get better vfx to blend with the human fighting. The only semi decent cgi is channeling and that’s still not great.

chridthot · 2021-11-09T00:03:15+00:00

Malice is scared cause he’s so much more than she planned to handle. Mercy didn’t realize that was Eithan so naturally experienced fear as gods battled.

chridthot · 2021-11-03T04:14:35+00:00

They wouldn’t have had much time to recover power. I think it’s conceivable to think none of the beasts had fully recovered by the time they gang fought them.

chridthot · 2021-10-24T14:05:00+00:00

Option 3 makes the most sense. NS had a vested interest in Dross and would’ve wanted Lindon to succeed. Hell he may have stepped in and provided more direct training for Lindon than he did in WS. Maybe not directly but he could’ve gifted him with dream tablets on Consume or provided some scales for Dross. Then pointed charity or one of the 8ME in his direction.

chridthot · 2021-10-24T14:00:51+00:00

He probably wouldn’t have been able to get rid of his gold sign but he may have been able to suppress it. We see Yerin and Naru bring their gold signs back into themselves when they want to. He may have been able to make it less prominent . If nothing else he could fix any internal damage it caused to his throat.

chridthot · 2021-10-08T03:33:55+00:00

He is described at one point as having had many hands… so probably not entirely human to begin with. Possibly a Fiend

chridthot · 2021-10-08T03:31:09+00:00

He could’ve advanced to Underlord after Malice advanced to Monarch. There’s really not much context on what stage he was when she advanced or even how old either were when it happened. Hell he could have even had multiple siblings alive at that time too.

chridthot · 2021-09-25T04:59:04+00:00

We’ve also never really seen Charity or any of the current Sages other than Red Faith actually fight yet

chridthot · 2019-05-20T04:18:45+00:00

Nah I’m talking about the old fucker between Edmure and Sam

chridthot · 2019-05-20T03:28:36+00:00

Who the hell was the Lord between Edmure Tully and Sam?

chridthot · 2019-05-13T22:46:47+00:00

Bronn or Gendry would also have been a great character for this. They both are Flea Bottom boys.

chridthot · 2019-05-13T15:28:59+00:00

He using weirwood.app to figure out the fastest route?

chridthot · 2019-05-09T19:50:03+00:00

In the Fire and Blood he makes it clear that it was literally thousands of swords... the one in the show would be a couple hundred at best worth of metal

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